in the media
Valentin Engobo (Community Leader, Lokolama, DRC) explains to a TV team the welcoming ceremony of his village. Credit: Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace
Newspapers and Magazines
2022
BBC News. Congo peat: The ‘lungs of humanity’ which are under threat.
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Bloomberg. Blinken Says Congo Needs Funding to Protect Forests, Peatlands.
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Bloomberg. Congo Peatlands, Which Slow Climate Change, Bigger Than Thought
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CarbonBrief. Discovering a potential ‘tipping point’ for Congo’s tropical peatland.
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The Economist. An oil auction in Congo bodes ill for the climate.
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Geography Directions. Congo peat swamps store three years of global carbon emissions – imminent oil drilling could release it.
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The Guardian. ‘Carbon timebomb’: climate crisis threatens to destroy Congo peatlands.
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The Guardian. DRC to auction oil and gas permits in endangered gorilla habitat.
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Le Monde. Kinshasa clears the way for oil drilling in the peat rich central Congo Basin (in French).
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Mongabay. In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil.
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The New York Times. Blinken Presses Congo Leaders to Slow Oil-and-Gas Push in Rainforest.
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The New York Times. The Worst Place in the World to Drill for Oil Is Up for Auction.
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University of Leeds. True size of largest tropical peatland revealed.
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2021
The New York Times. What do the protectors of Congo’s peatlands get in return?
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The Washington Post. The race to defuse Congo’s carbon bomb.
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Mongabay. The Congo Basin’s 10 most consequential stories from 2021.
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Mongabay. Four part series on the Congo Basin peatlands.
- The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin
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Read more > - Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands
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Mongabay. The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series.
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2020
Brown, M. 2020. Protecting tropical peatlands. Resurgence & Ecologist. 321, pp.36-37.
The Guardian. Plan to drain Congo peat bog for oil could release vast amount of carbon.
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2019
CIFOR. New Congo peatlands paper published.
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Le Vif joins CongoPeat scientists to the peatlands of DRC: “Operation peatlands in the Congo rainforest” (in French).
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National Geographic joins CongoPeat scientists to the peatlands of DRC: “Inside the search for Africa’s carbon time bomb”.
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2018
UN Environment. Launch of International Peatlands Centre, attended by CongoPeat scientists.
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CIFOR Forests News. Can Congo peatlands countries learn from Indonesia? Interview with Prof Lewis.
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Caixin & Weixin. Chinese journalists join CongoPeat scientists to the peatlands of DRC (in Mandarin).
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Le Figaro joins CongoPeat scientists to the peatlands of DRC: “Fragile carbon in the heart of the Congo basin” (in French).
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Washington Post joins CongoPeat scientists to the peatlands of DRC: “The Mud that could save the world”.
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Mongabay joins CongoPeat scientists to the peatlands of DRC: “Much deeper than we expected’: Huge peatland offers up more surprises”.
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2017
New York Times. Scientists Map Vast Peat Swamps, a Storehouse of Carbon, in Central Africa.
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Washington Post. Scientists just discovered a massive pool of carbon in central Africa that nobody knew was there.
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UK’s Guardian newspaper joins CongoPeat scientists to peatlands of DRC.
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The Guardian. World’s largest tropical peatland found in Congo basin.
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Environmental News Service. Congo Holds World’s Largest Tropical Peatland.
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2014
BBC News. Colossal peat bog discovered in Congo.
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The Guardian. Peat bog as big as England discovered in Congo.
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BBC Newsround. Massive peat bog discovered in Congo.
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TV & Radio Programs and Videos
2021
Campus AFD. Prof Suspense Averti Ifo explains close links between fight against poverty in Africa and sustainable forest management (in French).
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Global Peatlands Pavilion. COP26 side event Protecting the Congo peatlands for climate mitigation & adaptation.
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CongoPeat. Video: Protecting the Congo Basin Peatlands to Safeguard Climate and Biodiversity.
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2017
FranceInfo. TV documentary following scientist Simon Lewis and indigenous community leader Valentine Engpbo into DRC’s peatlands.
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